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Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition. A running CRUISE table has the potential to hang or get stuck in a sort of deadlock situation. The maximum allowed ECB's have already been created. One or more ECB's may need...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a facility to execute functions at the system level, e.g. full system CAPTURE

Provide new system level functions, e.g. CAPTURE type. This would scan through the entire ID range from the beginning to the end, to chain-chase each of the ID's in the DBDEF table. This is similar to what RECOUP does. Providing functions for syst...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Multiple EXITs for Crypto on Omegamon xe for z/os

ICSF parms already have one exit coded in client environment.EXIT(CSFPCI,CSFEAPG,FAIL(NO)) monitor icsf crypto device needs coding KM5EXIT3 in the parm but this is not supported.
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Domain Level Group Security

TX Series for Multiplatform v7.1.0.4 does not handle Domain Level Group security within the default "cicsgroup" for TXS Admin Console Tool access as well as for command line utilities execution. Local or Domain users associated within the local gr...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the CRUISE cross-reference file processing and handling options

There are several considerations in how the CRUISE cross-reference files are allocated and used. In addition to the need to improving the performance which has been addressed in other RFEs, there are other enhancements that would provide more flex...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

RDz File Manager Copy Wizard - allow dataset and SMS entries

Using the File Manger Copy Wizard through RDz. We realized that the copy wizard is changing the management class to IMMED, which causes the files to go away in less than 1 day. Can this be fixed?We went through the copy wizard ?next? options to se...
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

request to support spaces on installation path for launchpad.exe

This a request following APAR PI14022 and PMR 84071,7TD,000 to allow spaces on installation path in launchpad.exe.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

Backout with GSAM file

To avoid the abend of a bmp, a program can do a rollback to cancel the unit of work that caused the problem. But today, it's not possible with gsam file.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Global backout without restart

Today, when emergency restart failed, we have to restart with coldstart. But, to do that, we have to proceed backout on each inflight UOW.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

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